{"id":2629,"date":"2024-06-05T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2024-06-05T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:02:36","slug":"new-book-peter-e-gordon-a-precarious-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter E. Gordon published a fascinating new book on Adorno earlier this year, entitled A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and The Sources of Normativity<\/em> (Chicago UP). Here<\/a>‘s the link to the publisher’s website. And here’s the publisher’s blurb: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno\u2019s work as a critique animated by happiness.

\u201cGordon\u2019s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno\u2019s negativism.\u201d\u2014J\u00fcrgen Habermas<\/strong>
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Theodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowling contrarian who looked upon modern society with despair. Peter E. Gordon thinks we have this wrong: if Adorno is uncompromising in his critique, it is because he sees in modernity an unfulfilled possibility of human flourishing. In a damaged world, Gordon argues, all happiness is likewise damaged but not wholly absent. Through a comprehensive rereading of Adorno\u2019s work,\u00a0A Precarious Happiness\u00a0recovers Adorno\u2019s commitment to traces of happiness\u2014fragments of the good amid the bad. Ultimately, Gordon argues that social criticism, while exposing falsehoods, must also cast a vision for an unrealized better world.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter E. Gordon published a fascinating new book on Adorno earlier this year, entitled A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and The …<\/p>\n

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